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Download or read book The Steamboat Era written by S.L. Kotar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Download or read book Steamboat Days written by George MacBeath and published by St. Stephen, N.B. : Print'N Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Days written by George MacBeath and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sweeper, Snags, and Steam by : Ed Wolff
Download or read book Sweeper, Snags, and Steam written by Ed Wolff and published by Riverbend. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the steamboat era in Montana, mid-1800s, 50+ historic photos.
Book Synopsis Steamboat to the Shore by : George H. Moss
Download or read book Steamboat to the Shore written by George H. Moss and published by Ploughshare Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steamboats on the Western Rivers by : Louis C. Hunter
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Book Synopsis The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs by : Joan W. Gandy
Download or read book The Mississippi Steamboat Era in Historic Photographs written by Joan W. Gandy and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV170 rare and valuable photographs of Mississippi River and its vessels: major steamboats, luxurious interiors, passenger portraits, cargoes, mail boats, capsized ships, much more. Informative text. /div
Book Synopsis Come Hell Or High Water by : Michael Gillespie
Download or read book Come Hell Or High Water written by Michael Gillespie and published by Great River Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read these fascinating accounts from steamboat passengers, crews and newspapermen from the nineteenth century. This book explores all aspects of steamboating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, from vessel construction to races and accidents.
Book Synopsis Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom by : Robert H. Gudmestad
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.
Book Synopsis The Steamboat Era in the Muskokas: The golden years to present by : Richard Tatley
Download or read book The Steamboat Era in the Muskokas: The golden years to present written by Richard Tatley and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent two-volume set by noted historian Richard Tatley won the American Association for State and Local History Best Regional Book Award. In Muskoka, these books are the steamboat bibles. A must for any collector.
Book Synopsis Chesapeake Steamboats by : David C. Holly
Download or read book Chesapeake Steamboats written by David C. Holly and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix details the workings of early steamboat engines. Other appendices provide data on steamboats discussed in the text and maps of the region. The narratives extend the history of the era from that included in other books on the topic. The book, above all, is an enthusiastic, nostalgic, and thoroughly readable exposition of a bygone era and a "vanished fleet."
Book Synopsis Steamboats and the Cotton Economy by : Harry P. Owens
Download or read book Steamboats and the Cotton Economy written by Harry P. Owens and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book to make a detailed exploration of the system of riverboat traffic of the Delta region, "Steamboats and the Cotton Economy" is also the first balanced study showing how steamboats in the early years of the republic performed essentially the same role that railroads would later perform in revolutionizing the interior of the nation. Today, the mention of steamboats conjures up romantic visions of cotton landings and mythological river traders. Some of the steamboats plying the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta waterways give form to the myth. Others call forth the true work-a-day world of steamers loaded with passengers, freight, and sacks of cotton seed. Such ubiquitous trade boats, cotton, gin boats, sawmills boats, as well as ice and mail boats, not only helped to build the Cotton Kingdom but also added rich texture and color to the history of the Delta. In discovering the role of steamboats in the everyday life of the Mississippi Delta, this book reveals the vital economic
Book Synopsis The Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by : Richard Tatley
Download or read book The Steamboat Era in the Muskokas written by Richard Tatley and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboats written by Sara Wright and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paddlewheel riverboat, showboat, sternwheeler, steamboat: call it what you will, but the steamboat revolutionized travel in the 1800s, an era in which young boys dreamed of becoming river pilots and Mark Twain forever memorialized the "Delta Queens" that travelled up and down the Mississippi River. Steamboat enthusiast Sara Wright provides a background into the historical events that made the era perfectly ripe for the development of the steamboat industry in America in this colorful history. Steamboats will look at the people who played key roles in the development of the steam engine and paddle boats, including the important part played by the many African Americans who worked the river. Wright also examines the technology of these floating mansions, from firebaskets and cannons, to radars and whistles, to steam pressure gauges and other innovations.
Book Synopsis Farewell, Old Mount Washington by : Edward H. Blackstone
Download or read book Farewell, Old Mount Washington written by Edward H. Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :George Byron Merrick Publisher :Cleveland, O. : A.H. Clark Company, 1909 [c1908] ISBN 13 : Total Pages :346 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (334 download)
Book Synopsis Old Times on the Upper Mississippi by : George Byron Merrick
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by Cleveland, O. : A.H. Clark Company, 1909 [c1908]. This book was released on 1909 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: [Cleveland, OH]: The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1909.
Book Synopsis Those Roaring Riverboat Years by : Colonel Mason
Download or read book Those Roaring Riverboat Years written by Colonel Mason and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of the steamboat era, Mark Twain and Capt. Ed Heckmann, last of the great steamboat pilots, tell what it was like from their own experiences. Here you will relive the discovery of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Then learn of a disaster when the Mississippi flowed backwards in 1811, one that could destroy St. Louis and Memphis if happened today. You'll go to Natchez Under-the-Hill with bandits, outlaws, harlots and thieves. And here Capt. Heckmann tells of the gamblers, explains piloting side-wheelers vs. sternwheelers while Twain describes the excitement when steamboats came to town, and famous steamboat racing. Get the view from the pilothouse. Learn how the Yazoo River saved Vicksburg. Ride the dangerous rivers with a wounded trooper from the Custer massacre when all river speed records were broken, even to this day. Here you will find plantation families, learn how to read the water, vividly experience the most terrible wrecks, and ride the relief boat rescuing survivors when much of Louisiana was under ten feet of water from the great flood of 1882, all this and much more. This account of those roaring riverboat years is educational and entertaining, suitable for all ages.
